‘Sleeping giant’ Arctic methane deposits starting to release, scientists find – The Guardian

Scientists have found evidence that frozen methane deposits in the Arctic Ocean known as the sleeping giants of the carbon cycle have started to be released over a large area of the continental slope off the East Siberian coast, the Guardian can reveal.
High levels of the potent greenhouse gas have been detected down to a depth of 350 metres in the Laptev Sea near Russia, prompting concern among researchers that a new climate feedback loop may have been triggered that could accelerate the pace of…

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